Wolds poultry supplier and York butcher hatch up a treat for pupils
An East Yorkshire poultry business teamed up with a North Yorkshire family butcher to provide a butchery demonstration to students at a York school.
Yorkshire Wolds-based T.Soanes and Son provided Matthew Cross, of The Butchers Block in Burnholme, York, with chickens for his demonstration to GCSE Food Technology pupils at Manor Church of England Academy.
The idea behind the initiative was to allow pupils to work with poultry as the part of the GCSE curriculum requires students to butcher and joint a whole chicken prior to cooking it.
Tom Kingston, Sales Manager at T.Soanes and Son, said the demonstration was an excellent opportunity to showcase theirhigh-quality poultry to pupils at the school.
"When we heard about Matthew's idea, we wanted to get behind him as we supply chicken to The Butchers Block," he added.
"For these GCSE pupils, learning to butcher a chicken is an invaluable skill and we wanted to enhance their experience by providing them with fresh, local and tasty poultry."
Matthew Cross and his business partner and wife, Jessica taught the lesson to pupils in the one ofthe school'sdedicated food technology rooms. They then assisted pupils as they jointed chickens of their own at their work stations.
Jessica said: "This demonstration provided a lovely opportunity to share our passion and pass on our enthusiasm for butchery, as well as give something back to the community.
"It was nice to be able to answer any questions the pupils had and it was really interesting to see what recipes they came up with once they'd succeeded in jointing the chicken."
Family-owned business T.Soanes and Son has reared and supplied poultry products to local and national clients from its farm-based business since 1948. The business also supplies game to wholesalers and retail outlets.
The chickens produced byT.Soanes and Son are slow-grown, grain-fed and produced to high welfare standards.
Last year the business expanded its farmland and premises onto additional sites in East Yorkshire to keep up with increasing demand for its products.
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Photo:Manor pupils with Matthew Cross and teacher
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For more information aboutT.Soanes and Son, please visitwww.soanespoultry.co.uk.
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T.Soanes and Son supplies its chicken to butchers and independent retailers in Yorkshire and to wholesalers nationwide.
For more information about game available fromT.Soanes and Son's, please visitwww.soanespoultry.co.uk/game.
T.Soanes and Son is accredited under the BritishRetail Consortium Food Safety Standard A Grade and the Red Tractor Farm Assurance Standard.
The business was awarded the prize for the Medium Business of the Year in the Hull Mail Bus Bueinss Business Business HullDaily Mail Business Awards 2015.